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Bunny’s on break, human’s gone too, 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVL1MUHw6c
The boss is left with nothing to ship——just the script.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyXPRJZAh0
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The meeting room’s AC was, for some reason, colder than usual today.
The boss had called it an “emergency discussion,”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFft9UUzp0
but the director had been sitting there since 10 a.m.——and it was now 10:30.
No projector. No lights.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0dptk6yb9
Just a stack of freshly printed documents on the table.
The pages were still warm, the curled corners holding onto the last breath of the printer’s heat——18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NCCsSH2Qq
as if preemptively mourning someone’s fate.
On top of the stack, it read:18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cD0mU8lGL
Script Request: BL18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQxOZK5L9L
arget Delivery: 3/15 (negotiable)18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVpki98CVh
Note: No GL. Absolutely NO GL!18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVPlXUA0J2
Today was March 13th.
And something even deadlier than a deadline began to spread through the room——18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXSOTCQwSk
silence.
Then, the screenwriter broke.
“I see. So this is how I die.”
The tone was perfectly calm. But the keycap that flew off his keyboard said otherwise.
“Have I been smiling too sweetly lately?”
The art lead’s voice was gentle, eyes even gentler——18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2KDprbeDv
but the pen in her hand snapped in two with a clean, audible crack.
The manager glanced at the script title,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eYzDTN7LC
then looked up at the boss.
“This time it’s… human, right?”
The director said nothing.
He entered full survival mode: eyes vacant, lips sealed, limbs slowly retreating.
The back of his chair creaked slightly, as if whispering:18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtpH1RR4ew
“I’m not here. I don’t exist. Please let me live through this day.”
And the source of this whole cursed script——18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdK0JqxwOCU
the boss himself——
was now quietly shrinking behind the director,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwjpXrV4HS
desperately trying to suppress his presence.
Then, with a pitiful tone, he tried to defend himself:
“You guys know… we’re still a new company…”
“We really need the exposure…”
The murderous intent in the room collectively spiked.
“I… I really couldn’t say no to the client!”
“They didn’t want GL… and then said it had to be out by the 15th… sigh…”
The director turned his head slowly, eyes beginning to glaze over.
“Today is the 13th.”
“I paid a terrible price too!”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHQvARKpLD
the boss wailed, emotions flooding out like a broken dam.
“Waaahhh… I had to let go of my OTP…”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApESbPS6yE
“My bunny … My sweet, fluffy retriever…”
Before anyone could stop him, he kept talking——18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLk4EENT14z
and somehow, actually pulled out his phone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ujh8nkb7y
Opened the photo album with trembling hands,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrnGFe8BP9
and tapped on a photo like it was the last memory of a lost love.
In the photo, the bunny was clutching her human co-star’s arm with her fluffy little paws.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HAixEdS23
The two of them stood by the sea,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCduYu5OnI
glowing in the sunset like they were newlyweds on their honeymoon.
And the boss began to sob.
“They just went on vacation together, do you even realize that?!”
“Just yesterday, they were holding hands on the beach, drawing in the sand!”
“And now… now I have to launch a brand new couple, finish filming in two days,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWEDB8Sf5y
and somehow come up with a dramatic twist—?!”
He sniffled hard.
“This isn’t just abuse to me…18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjnMfoigd6
it’s abuse to the fans…”
Silence fell across the room once more.
When someone is truly speechless, they laugh.
“Heh.”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5pSWmBU3C
The screenwriter reattached the keycap that had been smacked off.
“Heh.” 18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulnInn8Zq8
The art lead bent down and quietly stuffed the broken pen deep into her pencil case.
“……”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOl0MR1FAgG
The manager said nothing, but had already started searching for exorcism spells on her phone.
“……”18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhT8ZPZVKr
The director also stayed silent, though his eyes had shifted——from “I am not here” to “If I strangle the boss right now, we won’t have to shoot this script, right?”
The lights in the meeting room were still off,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHDnxCN0on
but the atmosphere was hot enough to ignite the stack of papers on the table.
Sniffling, the boss turned to the director and the screenwriter.
“I have an idea.”
His eyes were red, like someone who’d just been hit by a wave.
“What if we made one of them a cop…”
In that instant, the air froze again.
“You sure about that?”
The manager jumped in before anyone else could erupt.
“If you actually cast someone who knows the law,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAsOgp9HtO
I swear they’ll sue you for labor abuse.”
The boss quietly closed his mouth.
The director sank a little lower into his chair.
The art lead took out her sketchpad again18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHo7Rb4i6Jz
and drew a picture: the boss with a pencil stabbed into his head——sharpened to a deadly point.
The screenwriter started checking his calendar.
“How many tens of thousands of words can I write in two days? I don’t know.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgiDjqilj5X
But I do know I might die on my keyboard.”
But no matter how chaotic things got——18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvVDw1DkPC
the show still had to go on.
At that point, no one could’ve predicted what this production would eventually become.
All they knew was that later that night,18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uqLnqRcGi
the boss really did post something.
Just a single photo:18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUy1TfUVmm
the backs of the bunny and the human, walking away into the distance.
The caption?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCCE14EjT5
Only five words: My favorite couple.
The post’s most-liked comment came from the director’s anonymous account.
"The most savage reply came from the art lead:18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuAsRyQe2X
"You tossed your OTP just to launch a new series——and now you’re crying about it?"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqrZBA5cqK
